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One of mine is avoiding unnecessary consumer goods purchases.

This 10+ yo Miele vacuum broke at the handle. The man said too old for replacement parts, maybe buy new?

I didn't think so.

Some shaping, multi-purpose strong glue & a few winds of duct tape laterโ€”gobs of energy and plastic waste held off a few more years at least.

@ahltorp @david_chisnall I recognize the existence of intersex. But humans are considered bipeds, even though someone can be born with a missing leg.
Point is, there are, objectively, two distinct sets of reproductive organs. You can tell the two sexes by that (check the dictionary). It is true, though, you can be malformed such that you have a cross of the two. Still, the two categories the mix-up is made of is pretty clear.

@Natasha_Jay Maybe there is a generic certificate request form that this one inherits from? IDK.

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MS WINDOWS HAS THE SEND-TO-BACK WINDOW MANAGEMENT FEATURE
All this time, I could just press Alt+Esc and my window would be sent to the back! If only I knew this back when I was a Windows user.
What if Windows also has always-on-top?

GNOME powers much more than just a desktop!

Projects like libxml2, libsoup, and vte are widely used across the open-source ecosystem.

Support GNOME and the many projects it enables :๐Ÿš€
๐Ÿ‘‰ gnome.org/donate

TIL: you can skip through YouTube videos at double the playback speed by clicking on them and holding the mouse press.

@fribbledom Provided focus is in the right place, you can actually do this by holding the spacebar, too.

@david_chisnall Yes, I'm contradicting them by citing a dictionary (multiple, actually). Sometimes the most educated people make the silliest decisions. It doesn't matter who contradicts basic facts. How many different sets of reproductive organs do humans have? Two. If you say otherwise, you're forgetting your basic definitions.

"and concluded that the Earth if [sic] flat as well" No, the Earth is round :)

@CM30 For sure, at least the family dog (and yours too by the look of it :) ). Funnily enough, our dog is pitch black and still likes it in the sun. I guess all the warmth helps her relax.

@david_chisnall
"either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures" ~~ Merriam Webster

"either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided" ~~ WordNet 2006

etc.
I'm not even talking about issues of gender in a social sense, I'm talking about biological sex.

@david_chisnall Sex is explicitly defined as sex chromosome XX = female, and sex chromosome XY = male. I kind of get how people can get confused on the issue of "gender", but there being two biological sexes is settled science.

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